Motivational Quotes

Courage

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

- Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

11.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

13.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

17.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

23.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

25.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

27.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

29.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

44.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas